skill

IPA: skˈɪɫ

noun

  • Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
  • (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
  • (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
  • (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

verb

  • (transitive) To set apart; separate.
  • (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
  • (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
  • (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
  • (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
  • (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
  • (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

adjective

  • (UK, slang) Great, excellent.
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Examples of "skill" in Sentences

  • He was skilled engineer.
  • He is tactful and skilled.
  • He was a skilled pugilist.
  • His skills are redoubtable.
  • He was skillful in subterfuge.
  • The aeronaut was not skillful enough.
  • He is known for his skill with the bow and his stealthy abilities.
  • Fritts 1991 uses the term skill with less forcefulness as follows:
  • She had no advanced skills at the time beyond the skills of a homemaker.
  • The faculty is also committed to the integration of skills into the curriculum.
  • The skill was said to eventually contribute to his abilities as an orthopedist.
  • His main skill is Disguise at +11, which would normally mean a pretty hardcore DC of 21 for the seekers.
  • Thriving in life requires learning to work with others, to learn what I call the skill of perspective taking.
  • To be sure, some pupils can develop skill much faster than others, but the point is, that _skill has to be developed_.
  • Granted, this skill is a luxury derived from media, moderate wealth in comparison, and American schooling, it has become apparent in my daily activities.
  • The traffic in skill is not confined to activity in our island itself, since Canada has been for some years a magnet for Barbadian would-be immigrants and migrant workers.
  • The term skill is used in Preisendorfer 1988 uses the term “skill”, who uses the term “hindcast skill”, where, as I read his equation 9.48, it is equivalent to what we would call the calibration r2 statistic.
  • Once word patterns have been noticed within a natural discourse – then the skill is about creating a realistic/communicative task which would provide an opportunity for students to “activate” the particular patterns noticed.

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